The execution of Christa Pike did not go off as planned and she is currently on a ventilator in ICU as her attorneys file motion to preserve evidence. The Head of Tennessee's Prison System resigns after the failed execution. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack review the case and the botched execution attempt and look to the future of what happens next. Highlights: 00:01.400 - The Colleen Slemmer Case 00:10.570 - A Forensic Anthropologist's Testimony 01:28.240 - The Murder of Colleen Slimmer

What’s Up With All This Fraud? What’s Real, What Isn’t, and Who Pays for It l Alexis Knight InvestigatesFraud is everywhere in the headlines right now, but what is actually true? Alexis looks at healthcare fraud, Social Security schemes, pandemic-relief fraud, election crimes, government losses, and the push for tougher penalties—then separates proven fraud from improper payments, political claims, and inflated numbers. Most importantly, what does all of this actually mean for taxpayers?Alexis

In February 1990, a runaway teenager named Regina Kay Walters and her boyfriend hitchhiked out of Texas toward Mexico and accepted a ride from a serial killer known as the Truck Stop Killer. The driver, Robert Ben Rhoades, brutally murdered the boyfriend so he could abduct Walters and subject her to weeks of torture inside a custom-built mobile dungeon compartment in his semi-truck. Before ultimately strangling the young victim to death in an abandoned barn, Rhoades snapped a disturbing photograph

Elaine Parent gained global notoriety as the "Chameleon Killer" after spending decades operating as a prolific con artist and fugitive. Using her charm and a convincing British accent, she manipulated vulnerable individuals into surrendering their personal data, ultimately accumulating over 20 stolen identities. Her criminal enterprise escalated in 1990 when she befriended Beverly McGowan in Florida, tricked the bank clerk into revealing her sensitive information, and subsequently murdered her

In the late 1940s, the Lonely Hearts Killers, comprised of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, operated a lethal scheme targeting vulnerable single individuals through personal advertisements. After Fernandez was released from prison, he began exploiting lonely people for financial gain, eventually partnering with Beck, who posed as his sister to lower the victims' suspicions. Their crime spree turned violent out of jealousy and frustration, leading to the brutal murders of Janet Fay, Delphine

Ed Gein was a notorious American serial killer and grave robber whose gruesome crimes in Wisconsin during the 1950s shocked the nation. After authorities discovered the mutilated remains of his victims alongside household items crafted from human skin and bone, Gein confessed to multiple murders and desecrating local graves. His deeply disturbed psychological obsession with his mother drove him to construct grotesque items with the intent of physically transforming into her likeness. These horrific

On September 30, 2026, Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. But after Pike received two doses of pentobarbital, she remained alive.Witnesses described Pike complaining about severe discomfort in her arm before curtains repeatedly closed around the execution chamber. Her attorneys say staff struggled with IV access and that Pike suffered serious injuries to both arms. This episode examines what happened inside the execution chamber, what

During the 1940s and 1950s, a British serial killer named John Christie murdered at least eight individuals, including his own wife, while concealing their remains inside his London apartment at 10 Rillington Place. Prior to his crimes being uncovered, Christie's neighbor, Timothy Evans, was wrongfully convicted and executed for the murders of his own wife and infant daughter after Christie offered to perform an illegal abortion and subsequently framed him. Although Christie used his background as a

On 18 January 1982, Imelda Marcos walked up a red carpet in peacock feathers to open the first Manila International Film Festival. Hollywood stars were there. Champagne flowed. The Greek-style temple on Manila Bay was supposed to make the city the Cannes of the East.Two months earlier, in the middle of the night, part of the building had collapsed on the workers racing to finish it. Rescuers weren't allowed in for nine hours. Some say well over a hundred men died, and that some were never recovered

In November 2016, Joel Guy Jr. brutally murdered both of his parents in their Tennessee home after learning they planned to stop financing his lifestyle. He meticulously documented his violent strategy in a notebook, which included stabbing them dozens of times and dissolving their remains in acid. The financial incentive behind the horrific acts was a $500,000 life insurance payout that he hoped to claim upon their deaths. Law enforcement discovered the ghastly crime scene after the mother failed

#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales #brutalending #darkobsession #crimeunfolds #psychologicalhorror #fatalconfrontation In Part 3, everything spirals into chaos as the mechanic’s obsession reaches its final and most dangerous stage. The tension built in the previous parts explodes into a brutal confrontation where control is lost and violence takes over. What was once a private fixation becomes a public nightmare with irreversible consequences. The story

Kouri Richins is serving life without parole for killing her husband Eric — and she’s not done fighting. Prosecutors now say she’s lying to the court about why she filed a sealed motion, calling her stated reason ‘a misleading pretext.’Richins was convicted in March 2026 after a jury found her guilty on every count: aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, insurance fraud, and forgery. She poisoned Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a cocktail at their Park City home. Two

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Is the suspected Philadelphia serial killer case much older than investigators realise?This week, I’m digging deeper into the life of R.C. Horsch—and I believe the timeline may be one of the most important parts of this story. While much of the attention has focused on the house in Olney where human remains were discovered in June 2026, my reporting is taking me back decades earlier.I’ve been speaking with people who knew Horsch and examining a roughly 35-year period in his life. Horsch presented

A reflective examination of the moral and societal lessons revealed by the tragic relationship between Anne Marie Fahey and Thomas Capano, exploring power, secrecy, control, loyalty, responsibility, and the fragile boundary between public reputation and private character. The story raises difficult questions about how families, institutions, investigators, courts, and society respond when truth is obscured by influence, fear, conflicting loyalties, and incomplete evidence. Ultimately, it becomes a

Between 1980 and 1982, Paul Michael Stephani committed a series of brutal assaults and murders against women in the Twin Cities area. Following these violent acts, the killer would anonymously contact authorities in a distressed, high-pitched tone to confess, express profound regret, and plead for help. Despite these emotional tips, he consistently denied involvement when initially arrested for the crimes he was linked to through an escaping victim and subsequent police surveillance. Years later,

Over a ten-month period, South Korean criminal Yoo Young-chul brutally murdered twenty individuals, earning the moniker "The Raincoat Killer." Following a troubled upbringing and prison release, he began targeting wealthy individuals before shifting his focus to local sex workers. His gruesome methods involved bludgeoning victims with a custom hammer before dismembering and concealing their remains. His reign of terror finally ended when massage parlor employees and police tracked him down using a

In September 2022, a Met firearms officer shot and killed Chris Kaba. What followed divided the country: protests and grief on one side, a mass walkout of armed officers on the other, and in the middle, a murder trial almost unprecedented in British policing.In this episode, Andy and Neil go back through what happened that night and what happened in court. Should the officer ever have been put on trial? Should jurors have known about Kaba's criminal history earlier? And can a split-second decision

A reflective exploration of the moral, ethical, and societal questions surrounding the Vicki Lynn Hoskinson case, examining justice, evidence, grief, accountability, and the limits of certainty.Through the details of the investigation and its decades long aftermath, the narrative considers what society owes victims, families, communities, and even the accused within a system built to pursue truth.Ultimately, it is a meditation on how tragedy should be remembered, how justice should be understood,